Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRIDAY: After jettisoning of the service module, the Apollo command module was due to re-enter the earth's atmosphere about 10:40 a.m. and splash down in the Pacific recovery zone near Christmas Island about eleven minutes later...
...that the Democrats and Republicans have stolen my thunder." Son of a Presbyterian minister, valedictorian of Princeton's class of 1905, six times Socialist candidate for President of the U.S., Norman Mattoon Thomas made an his toric mark. He died in his sleep last week in a Long Island nursing home...
...became the sixth American author to win the No bel Prize,* he was well past the crest of his powers, even though the committee in Stockholm professed to admire especially The Winter of Our Discontent, published in 1961. The novel was a 311-page allegory, set on Long Island, an unaccustomed territory for Steinbeck, and was written to portray the contamination of the nation's mor al standards and beliefs...
...story is from the legend of Orpheus. Nicholas Urfe (Michael Caine), an overread, underbred London dropout, accepts a teaching job on a Greek island. In Caine's adroit impersonation, Urfe explores sensuality from Alfie to Zeta, but along the way he stumbles into a labyrinthine underworld presided over by an occult genius-The Magus. His journey begins one day when he finds a book of poems open to the lines from Little Gidding. They are to become the theme of his life...
...mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part? Or is he God? Although Urfe comes to fear for his mind, he cannot leave the island. "It's like being halfway through a book," he says, driven to follow the maze to its end regardless of twists and turns...